jackovesk
21st February 2011, 03:41
Ambushed by a climate alarmist, with stunt child in tow, US Senator James Inhofe still manages to wipe the floor with the sanctimonious blowhard.
Finally some 'Common Sense' on this issue from a Politician...The volume needs to be turned up a little and listen carefully to the Senators words...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vmoErFbHao&feature=player_embedded#at=174
When a pair of young environmentalists from the Alliance for Climate Protection (ACP) tried to get in on the act, claiming to speak for their generation, Inhofe did not miss a beat. The senator pulled out pictures of his own children and told them that he is working to protect his progeny’s future.
http://dc-cdn.virtacore.com/2010/12/James-Inhofe-300x180.jpg
A Woman from ACP, identified by Solve Climate News as Allie Carter (AC) , a recent Michigan State University graduate (AC): I don’t understand why my generation has to suffer because it sounds like you’re not liking what you are hearing from these scientists you’re cherry picking.
JI: So your generation — Now who are you with?
AC: I’m with the Alliance for Climate Protection and I am here speaking on behalf young people.
JI: …No you’re not!
AC: I absolutely am.
JI: I have twenty kids and grand kids. You want to see a picture of them? [pulls out pictures]. Okay that’s good.
Inhofe then proceeded to calmly explain that the United States cannot sink its economy to satisfy the unproven hypotheses of a mixed group of scientists and activists.
JI: When you ask that question “what if you’re wrong?” Stop and think about it. What if you are wrong and we pass the largest tax increase in the history of America to do something that is not justified. I remember, and I use this in testimony. In 1993, you weren’t around in 1993… the Clinton/Gore tax increase was the largest tax increase at that point in history. All marginal rates, gasoline, everything went up. That was a total of a $30 billion tax increase. This would be ten times that great. This would be somewhere between $300 and $400 billion tax increase. That admittedly, now listen to this very carefully, according to the director at the EPA would not have any effect on emissions because that would only be in the United States. As jobs went to places like India and China and Mexico and maybe places that they don’t have any emissions requirements and actually increase emissions. So should we do that when we know and you know and everyone out here knows that it would not reduce worldwide emissions? Period. We all know this.
The ambush ended with Hertsgaard asking Inhofe if he would apologize to his children, to which Inhofe asked Hertsgaard if he would apologize to his 20 children and grandchildren.
In the wake of Hertsgaard’s failed ambush, even global warming alarmists are cringing at not only the full footage captured by Dempsey, but also the manner in which Hertsgaard has tried to demonize Inhofe.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/18/sen-inhofe-turns-tables-on-global-warming-ambushers-and-gets-it-on-tape-video/2/
Finally some 'Common Sense' on this issue from a Politician...The volume needs to be turned up a little and listen carefully to the Senators words...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vmoErFbHao&feature=player_embedded#at=174
When a pair of young environmentalists from the Alliance for Climate Protection (ACP) tried to get in on the act, claiming to speak for their generation, Inhofe did not miss a beat. The senator pulled out pictures of his own children and told them that he is working to protect his progeny’s future.
http://dc-cdn.virtacore.com/2010/12/James-Inhofe-300x180.jpg
A Woman from ACP, identified by Solve Climate News as Allie Carter (AC) , a recent Michigan State University graduate (AC): I don’t understand why my generation has to suffer because it sounds like you’re not liking what you are hearing from these scientists you’re cherry picking.
JI: So your generation — Now who are you with?
AC: I’m with the Alliance for Climate Protection and I am here speaking on behalf young people.
JI: …No you’re not!
AC: I absolutely am.
JI: I have twenty kids and grand kids. You want to see a picture of them? [pulls out pictures]. Okay that’s good.
Inhofe then proceeded to calmly explain that the United States cannot sink its economy to satisfy the unproven hypotheses of a mixed group of scientists and activists.
JI: When you ask that question “what if you’re wrong?” Stop and think about it. What if you are wrong and we pass the largest tax increase in the history of America to do something that is not justified. I remember, and I use this in testimony. In 1993, you weren’t around in 1993… the Clinton/Gore tax increase was the largest tax increase at that point in history. All marginal rates, gasoline, everything went up. That was a total of a $30 billion tax increase. This would be ten times that great. This would be somewhere between $300 and $400 billion tax increase. That admittedly, now listen to this very carefully, according to the director at the EPA would not have any effect on emissions because that would only be in the United States. As jobs went to places like India and China and Mexico and maybe places that they don’t have any emissions requirements and actually increase emissions. So should we do that when we know and you know and everyone out here knows that it would not reduce worldwide emissions? Period. We all know this.
The ambush ended with Hertsgaard asking Inhofe if he would apologize to his children, to which Inhofe asked Hertsgaard if he would apologize to his 20 children and grandchildren.
In the wake of Hertsgaard’s failed ambush, even global warming alarmists are cringing at not only the full footage captured by Dempsey, but also the manner in which Hertsgaard has tried to demonize Inhofe.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/18/sen-inhofe-turns-tables-on-global-warming-ambushers-and-gets-it-on-tape-video/2/